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An open letter to the President

Dear Mr. President,

Why do you keep protecting thugs, fraudsters and even cattle thieves? One evil effect of your attitude towards law breakers in high positions is that the idea that laws can be broken with impunity if protection from the top is assured, has permeated into all ranks of society, so much so that the frightening spectre of anarchy looms large.

Your government has lost all credibility, especially with regard to the conduct of the war. Your various spokesmen battle to outdo each other at fibbing and exaggeration. They must, for a start, stop issuing casualty figures which are obviously false.

Can any sane person continue to believe their stories of killing scores of Tigers with no reported casualties on the side of the government armed forces? Even the reported over-running of villages and towns is now going beyond the realms of credibility, with the same places being captured every three weeks or so.

What happens as a result is that more and more stories are doing the rounds especially via email. Two days ago one such story was doing the rounds that there were so many casualties among service personnel that they were being buried in mass graves dug with bulldozers, to prevent a reaction in the south and a resultant reluctance to enroll in the army.

Wouldn t it be wiser to keep the public informed more accurately about what is really happening? As an example, take the capture of Killinochchi. Around August 23 our worthy PM trumpeted triumphantly that Killinochchi was only two days away from capture. Today, in January 2009, Killinochchi is still under the Tigers, though regular reports continue to be blared over the media of its imminent capture.

The most ludicrous explanation for the slow progress was offered by the bearded spokesman. He claimed that the progress was slow to avoid civilians getting hurt. Someone should remind this worthy gentleman about the huge number of civilians who have suffered injury and death in bombing raids by our air force. He should take a walk in the refugee camps and listen to the refugees stories.

You may be convinced that politicisation of the war is good to cover a multitude of omissions and sinful commissions. It should be confined within sensible limits, instead of condemning everything done by the UNP, as traitorous, stifling the truth, and calling everyone who opposes the government a traitor.

It is sad for us all that you have decided to defy the Supreme Court on the hedging fiasco and the oil price reduction. You are inevitably being compared to Mugabe who has ridden roughshod over the judiciary and everyone who dared to oppose him in which case it is time to start ordering the printing of hundred million rupee currency notes.

The administration of the country is going from bad to worse with corruption and inefficiency being the norm. Economic problems seem to be beyond the comprehension of the accountant you placed at the top of the Central Bank. It is the same sad story at other key government institutions such as the CPC.

The Health and Education Ministries have been completely messed up along with some other ministries too. Billions are being wasted on maintaining a horde of incompetent ministers and deputies. One particular ministry has six ministers, one of whom has been accused of being a cattle thief by an eminent monk in the ruling coalition itself. He is not the first minister to earn that sobriquet.

The economy is crashing factories and other business establishments are going out of business in large numbers. The cost of living is sky high, inflation has been rising at a similar rate and it is becoming worse every day.

Where else can the country go but into the abyss and anarchy.

God Save Sri Lanka!

Anu

The best way to confirm whether Killi is taken fully or partly is to let the foreign correspondence in!!

The best way to confirm whether Killi is taken fully or partly is to let the foreign Correspondence in !!